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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. It will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.Trade Review'This anthology is very helpful to all those (specialists and students) who want to have a closer look at the origin of scepticism as well as the disputes that surrounded it in the Ancient period.' Science et EspritTable of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction, Richard Bett; Part I. Origins and Development: 1. Antecedents in early Greek philosophy Mi-Kyoung Lee; 2. Pyrrho and early Pyrrhonism Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson; 3. Arcesilaus and Carneades Harald Thorsrud; 4. The sceptical academy: decline and afterline Carlos Lévy; 5. Aenesidemus and the rebirth of Pyrrhonism James Hankinson; 6. Sextus Empiricus Pierre Pellegrin; Part II. Topics and Problems: 7. Scepticism and belief Casey Perin; 8. Scepticism and action Katja Maria Vogt; 9. Scepticism and ethics Richard Bett; 10. Academics versus Pyrrhonists, reconsidered Gisela Striker; 11. The Pyrrhonian modes Paul Woodruff; 12. Pyrrhonism and medicine James Allen; 13. Pyrrhonism and the specialized sciences Emidio Spinelli; Part III. Beyond Antiquity: 14. The rediscovery and posthumous influence of scepticism Luciano Floridi; 15. Descartes' transformation of the sceptical tradition Michael Williams; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morality
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Cambridge University Press The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
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Cambridge University Press Intellect and Character in Victorian England Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don
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Cambridge University Press The Feminist AvantGarde Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century 84 Ideas in Context Series Number 84
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Cambridge University Press Unthinking the Greek Polis
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary
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Cambridge University Press Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Enlightenment Past
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Cambridge University Press A Historical Sociology of Childhood
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions
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Cambridge University Press The Western Time of Ancient History Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Kants Critique of Pure Reason
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Cambridge University Press Against Throne and Altar
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Cambridge University Press Realism Photography and NineteenthCentury Fiction Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 60
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Cambridge University Press The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity 11671900
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley Cambridge Companions to Religion
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Cambridge University Press Political Thought and History
Book SynopsisJohn Pocock is arguably the most influential historian of ideas of modern times. These essays are selected from a lifetime of thinking about political thought, and how we should study it in history. Together they constitute a collection that any serious student of politics and intellectual history needs to possess.Trade Review'Although his writing demands a great deal of concentration … nowhere is it other than fresh, cogent and provocative. … is usefully illustrative, and offers insights that all who aspire to the study of intellectual history (in its broadest sense) can heed.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsForeword; Part I. Political Thought as History: 1. The history of political thought: a methodological enquiry; 2. Working on ideas in time; 3. Verbalizing a political act: towards a politics of speech; 4. Political ideas as historical events; political philosophers as historical actors; 5. The reconstruction of discourse: towards the historiography of political thought; 6. The concept of a language and the metier d'historien: some considerations on practice; 7. Texts as events: reflections on the history of political thought; 8. Quentin Skinner: the history of politics and the politics of history; Part II. History as Political Thought: 9. The origins of study of the past: a comparative approach; 10. Time, institutions and action: an essay on traditions and their understanding; 11. The historian as political actor in polity, society and academy; 12. The politics of history: the subaltern and the subversive; 13. The politics of historiography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Book SynopsisQuentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. This book complements Professor Skinner's Liberty before Liberalism, and is a work of similar breadth and power.Trade Review'… Skinner breathes new life into historical Republican thinking… Skinner's explanation of the exposition gives logical shape to Hobbes - Skinner gets down the polemical force of 'Leviathan' and sets it free. … Skinner's circumspection reconstructs Hobbes' arguments, and proves that James Harrington was right in his criticism of Hobbes - his won evidence puts his 'freedom theory' to blame. A definition is not a demonstration.' Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung' … characteristically lucid, elegant and, on its own terms, persuasive.' London Review of Books'It is not necessary to share Skinner's preoccupations or enthusiasms to recognise the virtues of this book. It is elegant and erudite.' The Times Literary Supplement'… when the Regius Professor of Modern History of Cambridge purports to offer a brand new reading of arguable the earliest significant work of English political philosophy, the mere possibility of centuries of conventional reading being set aside will prompt controversy and much deserved attention. … Skinner's new book offers us a concept of actual or practical human possibilities in our liberty or freedom that better identifies our natural and inalienable human rights than does a pure or absolute definition of liberty or freedom.' Supreme Court of Queensland Library Review of Books'… surely a valuable contribution to the existing body of Hobbes scholarship. Rich in well-documented references to figures of slight repute, but whose influence on Hobbes's thought can hardly be disregarded, this work doubtlessly constitutes one of the most important accounts of the Hobbesian idea of freedom … this excellent book does itself contribute significantly to our understanding of Hobbes's notion of 'liberty' in the framework of his oeuvre and as such ought to take an important place in the existing body of Hobbes literature.' CEU Political Science JournalTable of ContentsIllustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Preface; 1. Introductory: Hobbes's humanist beginnings; 2. The Elements of Law: liberty described; 3. The Elements of Law: liberty circumscribed; 4. De cive: liberty defined; 5. Leviathan: liberty redefined; 6. Liberty and political obligation; Bibliographies; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein The Political Economy of Inequality Unions and Social Democracy Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation
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Cambridge University Press Visions of Politics
Book SynopsisThe third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important work on the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form.Trade Review'As a retrospective showcase of the work of a major scholar, this is impressive. Skinner's ability to combine political and philosophical insight with minute knowledge of several centuries of political literature is awe inspiring.' Robert Sugden, The Times Higher Education Supplement' … this is a deeply impressive collection which displays Skinner's exceptional range.' The New York ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: Hobbes's career in philosophy; 2. Hobbes and the studia humanitatis; 3. Hobbes's changing conception of a civil science; 4. Hobbes on rhetoric and the construction of morality; 5. Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state; 6. Hobbes on the proper signification of liberty; 7. Hobbes and the classical theory of laughter; 8. History and ideology in the English revolution; 9. The context of Hobbes's theory of political obligation; 10. Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagement controversy; 11. Hobbes and his disciples in France and England; 12. Hobbes and the politics of the early Royal Society; 13. Hobbes's last word on politics.
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Cambridge University Press Kropotkin
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Cambridge University Press Political Obligation in Its Historical Context
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Cambridge University Press The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 15551590 23 Ideas in Context Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Citizens and Saints
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Cambridge University Press Subjects and Sovereigns
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Cambridge University Press Weber Passion and Profits
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Cambridge University Press The Renaissance in Italy
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Cambridge University Press The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome
Book SynopsisA classic work arguing that the major social and political changes occurring during the last century of the Roman Republic were accompanied by major intellectual developments which saw a move away from traditional understandings of where consensus and authority were to be located to approaches to knowledge based on critical reasoning.Table of ContentsForeword Malcolm Schofield; Preface; Introduction to the English edition; Roman culture in movement; 1. Crises and questionings; 2. Opening up the world: the birth of curiosity; 3. From disarray to erudition; 4. The experience of thought; 5. A discourse on the method, or the spirit of forms; 6. The construction of Roman universality; 7. Conclusion: the territories of reason.
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Cambridge University Press Lincoln Political Writings and Speeches Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press The Modern Philosophical Revolution The Luminosity of Existence
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Chartism Aesthetics Politics History 62 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 62
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Cambridge University Press History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism 18001865
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Cambridge University Press The Theory and Philosophy of History
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Cambridge University Press The Case of Ireland
Book SynopsisThe late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland''s neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society, associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.
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Cambridge University Press War States and International Order
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Cambridge University Press The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right 19181951
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Cambridge University Press War States and International Order
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Cambridge University Press Honor Romanticism and the Hidden Value of Modernity
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Cambridge University Press Feeding the Mind
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Cambridge University Press The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond
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Cambridge University Press Land and Liberalism
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Cambridge University Press Naturalism in the Christian Imagination
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Cambridge University Press Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
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Cambridge University Press A Philosophical History of the Concept
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Cambridge University Press Love Spells and Lost Treasure
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